“I think it’s become evident that this event is going to leave a long-lasting scar on the community,” said fire chief Jason Brolund.
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area, affecting approximately 4,500 properties, Brolund said he knows people are curious as to when they’ll be allowed to return home.3:01“We are working hard to get these fires out so you can go home as quickly as possible.”Brolund says he doesn’t know how many homes have been lost, but said they’ll start counting when they stop fighting fires.
He also said that his crews were extremely challenged on Friday, including getting called out to three houses all next to each other that were on fire. Brolund said the fires were threatening hundreds of homes above those three, and that they were expanding upwards.“We had multiple engines involved in combatting three single-family house fires, which, on a normal day for us, is a massive operation,” said Brolund.
“At the same time our crews were fighting it on the ground, crews were flying above in helicopters and dropping water on the same fires.
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